Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Ladies of Lagos
ca. 1890
Africa; Lagos (Nigeria)
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Group portrait of three ladies dressed-up in fine clothes of Eurpoean fashion. Two of the women are each holding a book while the third is holding a basket of flowers, Lagos, Nigeria, between 1877-1895. Accompanying inscription reads, "Ladies of Lagos in Fancy Ball Dresses, Flora - Virginia - Eugenia, figlis .. Corvallis e Balbina." Photographer unknown.
- Collection
- West African photographs
- Catalog date
- ca. 1890
- Recorded places
- Africa; Lagos (Nigeria)
- Format and extent
- 1 Print (albumen., b&w, 16 x 11 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1995-017, Item EEPA 1995-170012
Collection: West African photographs